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Reflections on palliative care from the jewish and islamic tradition. [PDF]

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2012
Spiritual care is a vital part of holistic patient care. Awareness of common patient beliefs will facilitate discussions about spirituality. Such conversations are inherently good for the patient, deepen the caring staff‐patient‐family relationship, and enhance understanding of how beliefs influence care decisions.
Schultz M, Baddarni K, Bar-Sela G.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Election, Favoritism, and Freedom: Towards a Modern Jewish Theology of Matrilineal Descent

Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 775-795, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This article offers an account of the broad theological contours of the Jewish practice of matrilineal descent. I make the case that matrilineality epitomizes God's contingent preference in favoring and electing Israel. I link Mara Benjamin's recent work to recuperate asymmetrical power relations for feminist theology to the asymmetrical ...
Judah Isseroff
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Breath of Every Living Thing’: Zoocephali and the Language of Difference on the Medieval Hebrew Page

Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 714-748, September 2023., 2023
The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
wiley   +1 more source

‘Hollywood is a Woman's Town’: Masculinity and the Leading Man in American Fan Magazines of the 1930s

Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 642-666, July 2023., 2023
Abstract In their address to a predominantly female readership, fan magazines of the 1930s asserted that Hollywood was one place in which women were not subordinated to men as female stardom was superior to that of male stardom. The magazines’ representations of male actors were both compliant with, and resistant to, the tough‐guy image of hegemonic ...
Stephen Sharot
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence, hints and assumptions for late pregnancy in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East

Acta Paediatrica, Volume 112, Issue 7, Page 1371-1377, July 2023., 2023
Abstract Ancient women, who survived childhood mortality, received good and adequate nutrition, did not work hard and escaped death during childbirth could live fairly long lives. Girls started procreation after marriage, usually at 15 years, had on average seven children, childbearing lasted 14–21 or more years and could happen at the age of 35 or ...
Ariadne Malamitsi‐Puchner, Ioannis M. Konstantakos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

RECONCEIVING THE PRACTICE OF HISTORY: FROM REPRESENTATION TO TRANSLATION

History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 106-128, March 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Arguing that history is not the application of a rigorous method to sources bequeathed to us from the past but rather a practice of coding that constructs “the past” in particular ways, this article seeks to delineate the key elements of this coding.
Sanjay Seth
wiley   +1 more source

Secularization and its ethical consequences: orthodox Israeli Jews sanctifying ‘mundane’ Buddhist meditation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 1270-1289, December 2022., 2022
Abstract ‘Insight’ or vipassanā meditation refers to meditative practices employed within Buddhist traditions. But following the secularization of vipassanā in recent decades – that is, its differentiation from Buddhism – orthodox Jewish Israeli meditators frame it as a religiously neutral, therapeutic technique centred on the mundane human body.
Ori Mautner
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Jewish Theology and its Sources: A Review Essay

, 2023
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 327-331, April 2023.
Devorah Schoenfeld
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Decimal Diaspora: Ten Exiles and a Medieval Construction of Jewish History

Hamsa, 2022
The present article reviews religious constructions of Jewish diaspora History in their long-term evolution and discusses a midrashic text that hints at a historical turning-point in the 12th century.
Carsten L. Wilke
doaj   +1 more source

MIDRASH ED HERMENEUTICA BÍBLICA - L'ESEMPIO DELLA "COSTRUZIONE" DELLA FIGURA DEL MESSIA NEI VANGELI DELL'INFANZIA DI MATTEO E LUCA'

Caminhos, 2015
Resumo: o midrash é o método típico de ler a bíblia dos hebreus. O seu fundamento é a visão cíclica da história, onde o acontecimento central, a presença de Deus na história, é continuamente atualizado oferecendo sempre novos significados às várias ...
Luigi Shiavo
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